Comment: The last commit to the CVS for this package is 4 years old, and I find it reliably crashes Allegro Common Lisp (ACL 8.2, 64-bit, on both Linux and Mac OS X). Claims to use CFFI, but references the UFFI package, and it's the :uffi library that's loaded by cl-syslog.asd. Use at your own risk. Update: Looks like it's only the version in CVS that has been updated to use CFFI; the tarball is still UFFI.
Comment 2: lhope cloned the 2006 CFFI version at https://github.com/lhope/cl-syslog.
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ASDF-install package (obsolete) http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-syslog/cl-syslog_latest.tar.gz